Wewak
Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. It is on the northern coast of the island of New Guinea. It is the largest town between Madang and Jayapura. It is the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wewak
- Type: City with 88,500 residents
- Description: provincial capital of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Wewak District, East Sepik Province, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-3.5542° or 3° 33′ 15″ southLongitude
143.6271° or 143° 37′ 38″ eastPopulation
88,500Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)IATA airport code
WWKUnited Nations Location Code
PG WWKOpen location code
6R85CJWG+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 1538978470OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2083537Wikidata ID
Q1017763
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Wewak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويواك”
- Asturian: “Wewak”
- Cebuano: “Wewak (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Wewak”
- Chinese: “韋瓦克”
- Chinese: “韦瓦克”
- Dutch: “Wewak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويواك”
- Esperanto: “Wewak”
- Estonian: “Wewak”
- Finnish: “Wewak”
- French: “Wewak”
- Galician: “Wewak”
- German: “Wewak”
- Hebrew: “וייווק”
- Indonesian: “Wewak”
- Italian: “Wewak Urban”
- Italian: “Wewak”
- Japanese: “ウェワク”
- Japanese: “ウエワク”
- Korean: “웨와크”
- Korean: “웨왁”
- Lithuanian: “Vevakas”
- Mingrelian: “ვევაკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wewak”
- Persian: “وواک”
- Polish: “Wewak”
- Portuguese: “Wewak”
- Russian: “Вевак”
- Silesian: “Wewak”
- Spanish: “Wewak”
- Swedish: “Wewak”
- Tok Pisin: “Wewak”
- Ukrainian: “Вевак”
- Urdu: “ویواک”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wewak”. Photo: Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0.